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by Professor Loungebar
Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:53 pm
Forum: Instruments
Topic: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day
Replies: 26
Views: 30522

Re: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day

Funnily enough, this post was a direct response to Mr Ivimey's post of Wed Feb 22 2017 where he complained of being in the doldrums and looking for direction and his mention of "Burt" Weedon on Fri Mar 31 2017. It's quite likely though that he gets more "larffs" from buying and t...
by Professor Loungebar
Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:54 pm
Forum: Instruments
Topic: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day
Replies: 26
Views: 30522

Re: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day

Ralph Denyer's The Guitar Handbook, although teaching the same classical technique as all the rest, does make a brief mention of thumb over technique in his section on full barre chords: "Alternative Fingering. Many modern guitarists use their thumb to fret the 6th string and play just a two-st...
by Professor Loungebar
Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:33 pm
Forum: Instruments
Topic: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day
Replies: 26
Views: 30522

Re: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day

Thanks to Andrew, ed and Stratmangler for your replies. First, my original post was indeed intended to be controversial or, to put it another way, to start off a discussion. Having read many of the posts on this forum, I had assumed there was a certain degree of light heartedness tolerated. Sorry if...
by Professor Loungebar
Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:37 pm
Forum: Instruments
Topic: A new acoustic guitar!
Replies: 44
Views: 53615

Re: A new acoustic guitar!

Andrew - my profuse apologies for the irreverent tone of my previous reply - having enjoyed the intelligent Zappaesque wit of your own posts (Burt Weedon Sandwich for example), I thought it might strike a chord, so to speak. Obviously not. I did see your mention of attending a course, something I ca...
by Professor Loungebar
Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:02 pm
Forum: Instruments
Topic: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day
Replies: 26
Views: 30522

Re: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day

Many thanks to Stratmangler for posting the B B King video - a supremely moving performance and many good close ups of his LH thumb in action, both on the neck (in particular when executing string-pulls, but also most of the rest of the time except when using vibrato) and off (when he moves his enti...
by Professor Loungebar
Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:15 am
Forum: Instruments
Topic: A new acoustic guitar!
Replies: 44
Views: 53615

Re: A new acoustic guitar!

I saw this post a few months ago and I wondered what a man of your considerable intellect, advancing years and ahem instincts is doing a-strummin' away on an acoustic wimp-box. Then it occurred to me. Art though perchance in love, my boy? BTW I've got 27 TL072CP ICs that someone gave me a few years ...
by Professor Loungebar
Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:56 am
Forum: Instruments
Topic: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day
Replies: 26
Views: 30522

Re: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day

I shall respond to Stratmangler's interesting contributions in due course. Meanwhile, I came across this video of Eric Clapton performing with Dr John in 1996. Although the video focuses primarily on Dr John, Eric does take a solo and every shot of his LH provides overwhelming evidence that during t...
by Professor Loungebar
Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:30 am
Forum: Instruments
Topic: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day
Replies: 26
Views: 30522

Re: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day

Looks as if my reply listing the Weedonists pictured in Ralph Denyer's book got deleted. So, in the interests of fairplay etc here is the (short) list of players who appear to be using an orthodox grip: Pat Metheney, Robert Fripp, Eric Clapton (although I've never paid a lot of attention to EC, I'm ...
by Professor Loungebar
Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:13 am
Forum: Instruments
Topic: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day
Replies: 26
Views: 30522

Re: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day

Next up, the thumb overs: all 3 guitarists in the Quintet du Hot Club de France (including Django who of course employed a highly unorthodox LH technique as a result of his horrific accident), Charlie Christian, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Freddie King, Duane Eddy, John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix, Frank ...
by Professor Loungebar
Sat Jan 13, 2018 9:20 am
Forum: Instruments
Topic: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day
Replies: 26
Views: 30522

Re: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day

Well, in response to Nick's B B King vibrato challenge, I haven't played that particular style since about 1969 when, armed with a Hofner Club 60 (yes, the very same make that Weedon endorsed) complete with a "BLUESKING" logo that I stuck on the raised pickguard after seeing something simi...
by Professor Loungebar
Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:46 pm
Forum: Instruments
Topic: Bert Weedon's Play In A Day
Replies: 26
Views: 30522

Bert Weedon's Play In A Day

I was stunned to discover fairly recently that this is still in publication, though in slightly different guise from the copy I had in October 1963. I don't know if it's still full of the sort of misleading drivel which kept my own playing in the "doldrums" for about 40 years, but the cove...